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Mothers


  • Turning into Mom by Maggie Van Ostrand 5-8-08
    Most of us remember our moms with affection, or occasionally, dislike. But we always remember them, even when they're not around any more. I turned out to be more like my mom than I could ever have expected...
  • Elective by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal 11-5-07
    There are good things about having grown children and not so good things about it. Big kids are, for one thing, much harder to cuddle...
  • Big Babies by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal 5-11-07
    "It is a sad day in a mother's life when she suddenly realizes that her daughters do not consider her to be the font of all knowledge; from what is polite, to what is fashionable, to when one might reasonably give up on DayQuil and make a trip to the doctor's office. It is like losing something, losing a public office perhaps, or ..."

  • Bad Mothers by Maggie Van Ostrand 5-11-07
    It's difficult to write this story about University researchers in Canada coming up with the unpleasant fact that mothers take better care of "good looking" children than they do "ugly" ones.
  • Brotherhood of Motherhood by Peary Perry 4-25-07
    There exists in our society today a brotherhood much larger than that of cops. This is the Brotherhood of Motherhood.
  • Sam's Mother-in-Law by Mike Cox 3-30-07
    "Despite the rocky beginning of their relationship, Sam Houston treated Mrs. Nancy Lea, his mother-in-law, with all due respect. He must have learned to accept her eccentricities as well, like the lard incident..."
  • Autograph book reveals mother's girlhood by Delbert Trew 2-1-07
    ...Naoma was only 8 years old and the first entry was by her father who wrote, "Love many and trust few, but always paddle your own canoe. Respectfully, your Papa." The second entry was by her mother who penned: "Dear Naoma, Keep a watch on your words my dear for words are a wonderful thing. They are sweet like the bee's honey, or like bees they have a terrible sting. Lovingly, your Mama."...

  • Gram and Daffodils by Robert Cowser 2-1-07
    "One afternoon in the early spring shortly after my younger brother and I had arrived home from school, Mary brought Gram, as John called his grandmother, to visit my family. Mary wanted Gram to meet our family. She also wanted Gram to see the daffodils in bloom in the pasture across the road from our house..."
  • Blame it on the Boogie by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
    It was a typical afternoon. Nothing very exciting, nothing too out of the normal course of an afternoon. I have been thinking and thinking, trying to define what particular event might have pushed my youngest son Andy irrevocably into his Adolescent Angst phase...
  • Mother by Mike Cox
    She used to sit in the lap of the legendary old Texas Ranger Capt. John R. Hughes and pull his white beard and ask him questions about the Wild West. She remembered when soldiers on horseback gave a public parade every Sunday at Fort Bliss...
  • Harvey Girls and Juke Quarters by Delbert Trew
    "My mother was a Harvey Girl... At 16 years of age, she left home for the first time, signed a Harvey Girl contract and moved into a room above the restaurant alongside the railroad track at Temple...."
    "For the first time in their lives, they had shiny black shoes, hose and fine underwear, plus black skirts and starched white aprons to wear each day." ...
  • An Evening In Paris With Mom by Maggie Van Ostrand
    "Someone was wearing Evening In Paris perfume the other day. The scent of it instantly reminded me of Mom; I haven't smelled Evening In Paris since we lost her, yet its fragrance transported me back to my childhood and to the Mother's Day when I spilled a precious bottle of it."
  • Nesting by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
    "...Friends, something truly wonderful has happened to me and I want to share it for those of you who are one or two steps behind me on the life experience ladder...."
  • Love You, Ociffer! by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
    It takes a very special person to work the night shift successfully.
  • Monsters of Big Creek by George Lester
    A Mother's Wisdom
  • Don't go Near the Water, Son, Until You Learn to Swim by N. Ray Maxie
    My mother, the kindhearted, nurturing and caring person that she was, became extremely over-protective of us kids during the 1930's and 40's. She was raised through some mighty tough times and later, the Great Depression.
  • When Traveling in Mexico, Leave Your Pantyhose At Home by Maggie Van Ostrand
    Meeting the relatives of Keiko, my son Jason's beautiful wife.
  • Bring Me the Head of My Least Favorite Nephew by John Troesser
    In back of many lunch counters and cash registers in Texas and around the South, there is a sign that states: "If Mama Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy." It is mildly amusing if it was a family member who put the sign up. It isn't funny at all if "mama" herself put it up. This is a story of a son who tried to please "mama" a little too enthusiastically ...
  • Neta's Snake Tale by Neta Rhyne
    "Our oldest daughter started college in 1989 and since employment opportunities are few and far between in remote west Texas I began looking for ways to make money. One evening while reading the local paper I came across a want ad which read "Wanted Live Rattlesnakes" will pay $6.00 per pound. Now catching live rattlesnakes was not on my list of things I wanted to do but considering how many rattlers there are in these parts I figured this could be a profitable enterprise."
  • Women Want Details, Men Cut to the Chase by Peary Perry
    How come when babies are born, the way men describe them is entirely different from women?
  • Grandparenthood by Peary Perry

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